Hewlett-Packard donates Corvallis lab space to OSU The deal allows the school to expand its engineering program

Gift - Lab space in Corvallis will allow the university to
expand its engineering program

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

MIKE ROGOWAY

The Oregonian Staff

Quality lab space. Rent free.

That's the killer deal Hewlett-Packard Co. is giving
Oregon State University, handing over a 20-year-lease to an
80,000-square-foot building on HP's Corvallis campus.

It's room HP doesn't need after years of job cuts,
and space OSU badly wants as the university works to
increase the scale of its engineering department and improve
its national profile.

OSU values the donation at $25 million and said it marks a
big growth opportunity for the university.

HP already lets the school use a quarter of Building 11 on
the southeast corner of the company's campus, which is
less than three miles from OSU. In the coming months, OSU
will take over the whole thing and upgrade the facility with
$9.5 million in improvements earmarked by the Oregon
Legislature.

The facility is currently home to ONAMI -- the Oregon
Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute -- and to the
Microproducts Breakthrough Institute. Both organizations are
affiliated with OSU and conduct research into medical and
scientific applications for really, really small things.

For example, OSU engineering dean Ron Adams said, a handful
of small companies affiliated with ONAMI currently use space
on HP's campus to:

HP, which declined comment on the donation, invented the
inkjet printer in Corvallis and continues to do much of the
company's most advanced research at the site. But
it's been steadily ratcheting back Corvallis operations
for several years, and its scenic, 150-acre campus now feels
a little lonely.

The company had 10,000 employees and contractors in
Corvallis only 10 years ago, but layoffs and buyouts have
reduced the work force to just 2,500.

OSU plans to announce the deal today. Adams said Tuesday that the university has increased its number of engineering graduates by 40 percent since 2000 and expects to award 740 undergraduate and graduate diplomas this year....

Hewlett-Packard donates Corvallis lab space to OSU The deal allows the school to expand its engineering program

Gift - Lab space in Corvallis will allow the university to
expand its engineering program

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

MIKE ROGOWAY

The Oregonian Staff

Quality lab space. Rent free.

That's the killer deal Hewlett-Packard Co. is giving
Oregon State University, handing over a 20-year-lease to an
80,000-square-foot building on HP's Corvallis campus.

It's room HP doesn't need after years of job cuts,
and space OSU badly wants as the university works to
increase the scale of its engineering department and improve
its national profile.

OSU values the donation at $25 million and said it marks a
big growth opportunity for the university.

HP already lets the school use a quarter of Building 11 on
the southeast corner of the company's campus, which is
less than three miles from OSU. In the coming months, OSU
will take over the whole thing and upgrade the facility with
$9.5 million in improvements earmarked by the Oregon
Legislature.

The facility is currently home to ONAMI -- the Oregon
Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute -- and to the
Microproducts Breakthrough Institute. Both organizations are
affiliated with OSU and conduct research into medical and
scientific applications for really, really small things.

For example, OSU engineering dean Ron Adams said, a handful
of small companies affiliated with ONAMI currently use space
on HP's campus to:

HP, which declined comment on the donation, invented the
inkjet printer in Corvallis and continues to do much of the
company's most advanced research at the site. But
it's been steadily ratcheting back Corvallis operations
for several years, and its scenic, 150-acre campus now feels
a little lonely.

The company had 10,000 employees and contractors in
Corvallis only 10 years ago, but layoffs and buyouts have
reduced the work force to just 2,500.

OSU plans to announce the deal today. Adams said Tuesday that the university has increased its number of engineering graduates by 40 percent since 2000 and expects to award 740 undergraduate and graduate diplomas this year....